UNEMPLOYMENT AMONG B.TECH STUDENTS ~ RAJDEEP DAS

WHY AN INDIAN ENGINEERING FRESHER REMAIN UNEMPLOYED AFTER THE COMPLETION OF B.TECH IN INDIA

In various states of India for example west Bengal the curriculum of an engineering college is way backdated. They study age old technologies which have become obsolete in present day industry. So we can’t expect them student to do innovative stuffs on cloud computing or IoT based of the mere knowledge of transistors and p-n junction diodes. It is like a kid has just learned to draw a straight line and the parents are expecting him/her to produce a van Gog painting.

In most of the tier 3 private colleges in India the faculty, college infrastructure and the whole education environment is not good enough to produce a proper engineer. Students are more interested in college fests, weeds, porn, hook ups etc rather than taking interest in academics. In this kind of environment no innovations can be done. A bitter truth that we all have to admit.

Apart from the college activities the other big problem is the huge population. India doesn’t have that much industry/job opportunity yet to accommodate the huge amount engineers produce each year. Economy does play an important role behind the unemployment of these fresh engineers.

Not every student gets the opportunity to study in an IIT or in a NIT. 75%-80% engineering students belong from the private colleges under state universities.  So for the betterment of these unemployed and current engineering students the first thing that needs to be done is to reconstruct the academic system of the private colleges. Evidently a very hard task indeed.